There has been a landmark court ruling in Malawi which has seen the first person sentenced to death for killing a teenager with albinism.

Abubacar Tambadou, the Attorney General and Minister of Justice said on 7 May 2019 the government of the Gambia as part of fulfilling its international obligation is willing to remove the death penalty.

Nineveh Criminal Court sentenced a terrorist of Daesh groups to death for killing Iraqi soldiers and raping Yazidi women, INA reported on 9 May 2019.

A prisoner was executed at Ardabil prison on 4 May 2019, HRANA reported.

Five condemned persons who have been convicted to be stoned to death while another 10 whose legs and hands are to be amputated are said to be languishing in Bauchi prison presently.

Lawmakers in Taiwan voted on 7 May 2019 to amend existing laws to enforce heavier penalties against anyone – locals, Hong Kongers or mainland residents – who leak state secrets or spy for Beijing.

According to the Kurdistan Human Rights Network, on the morning of 30 April 2019 a man was hanged at Tabriz central prison for “rape charges.”

A Minsk court has overturned the decision to deport Iranian citizen Merhdat Jamshidiyan who has spent 10 months in Belarusian prison. His case has been sent back for review.

A Pakistani Christian woman who spent eight years on death row in Pakistan after being found guilty of blasphemy — a conviction that was later overturned — has arrived in Canada, her lawyer said on 8 May 2019.

Iran secretly hanged on 29 April 2019 four prisoners on drug related charges in Central Prison of Arak.

Egypt's highest appeals court on 7 May 2019 upheld death sentences for 13 people convicted of terror charges over attacks in the capital in which explosive devices killed at least two police officers.

Bahrain’s supreme court of appeal on 6 May 2019 upheld death sentences for two men convicted of forming a terrorist group that attacked security forces.